497 - When the past saw the future
N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Evi Charitidou
At the old railway station. Full shot. Flash back.
A little girl who seems lost is approaching a monk…
Athanasia
Do you happen to know when the train arrives?
Fotis
It won’t be late now. Time. Don’t worry…
Athanasia
How do you know that I’m worried?
Fotis
You are not waiting for the time!
Athanasia
Are you waiting for it?
Fotis
I live with it…
Athanasia
How can I live with it too?
Fotis
By dying with it…
Athanasia
How can I die?
Fotis
It’s too early…
Athanasia
Why is it early?
Fotis
You haven’t learnt how to suffer yet…
Athanasia
But, I don’t want to suffer….
Fotis
Neither do I want you to suffer…
Athanasia
Can you suffer for me?
Fotis
This is why I have come…
Athanasia
Will you take the train too?
Fotis
No, I have to stay here…
Athanasia
May I sit next to you? She’s sitting next to him. Do you have friends here?
Fotis
I had and I will have.
Athanasia
But, don’t you have now?
Fotis
I have to build a bridge first…
Athanasia
Are you a master too?
Fotis
No, just the material…
Athanasia
Why can’t I understand you when you answer me?
Fotis
Because you are not asking me any questions!
Athanasia
How strange are you! Fotis smiling… However, you are such a good man…
Fotis
I’m only human…
Athanasia
Why are they so few and the others so many?
Fotis
Even a single candle can enlighten darkness…
Athanasia
Yes, but for how long?
Fotis
As long as light deserves it.
Athanasia
And how about if we don’t want to see?
Fotis
Then we shouldn’t take trains…
Athanasia
I like travelling…
Fotis
Your travel, though, starts here from these rails…
Athanasia
What two lines can do to you! Time. They can take you from one edge to the other…
Fotis
The circle of life…
Athanasia
And where’s death?
Fotis
Wherever life is…
Athanasia
Why to live if I am to die?
Fotis
Why to die if you are to live?
Athanasia
You live here but you are not from here.
Fotis
I used to be from here and I will be from here… Time. Time is space with no dimensions…
Athanasia
You know, I don’t want to take the train any more…
Fotis
And why is that?
Athanasia
Because I arrived without departing…
Fotis
Only motionless trips take us really away…
Athanasia
I like travelling with you…
Fotis
Your city is a motionless trip…
Athanasia
I’ll catch up on you before you go again…
Fotis
I’ll be here, when you need me… She’s kissing him on the chick.
Athanasia
Then I may leave… Time. And what if I forget you?
Fotis
I will remember it for you…
Flash back. End.